Edward Anthony Holden

Edward Anthony Holden (2 August 1805 – 28 August 1877) was a landowner who lived at Aston Hall, in Aston upon Trent, Derbyshire. He inherited land and bought more starting in 1833. He was High Sheriff of Derbyshire in 1838/9. By the time of his death he had created an estate of over of land in Derbyshire and Leicestershire. The Holden family are thought to have come from Findern, but Henry Holden settled in Aston in 1569. It was his son who started the estate and it was largely extended by Henry's grandson, Robert (father to Mary) who was a successful lawyer.

Career

In 1839 he served as High Sheriff of Derbyshire taking over from his brother-in-law, George Moore, who had been Sheriff the year before.

The year after his marriage, he began his expansion of the family's property. Together, they were the parents of:

Susan Elizabeth Holden (1834–1874), who married the Rev. John Fitzherbert Bateman in 1861. Ann Shuttleworth Holden (1835–1924), who married Horace Devas in 1857. James Shuttleworth Holden (1843–1916), who married Alice Louisa Cookson in 1871. Caroline Shuttleworth Holden (1855–1932), who married Charles Leslie Lovett Cameron in 1876.

By the time of his death, Holden owned of land in Derbyshire and about of land in Leicestershire. In his home village of Aston, he had bought numerous cottages and fields in small lots including the, Coach & Horses and the schoolhouse. It isn't clear who eventually came into the possession of the lands in Leicestershire, but the lands in Aston were disposed of in one lot in 1898. William Dickson Winterbottom bought these lands from Edward Charles Shuttleworth Holden.

Legacy A window in Aston's church is the memorial to Holden's eighteen-year-old son as well as a memorial to him in old Harrovian.

Through his son Charles, he was a grandfather of Edward Charles Shuttleworth Holden (b. 1865), a Maj. in the Derbyshire Yeomanry.